Weekly Dose of Metal: The Absence

The Absence are an American Melodic Death Metal band with Thrash influences, and are noticeable within the genre for being one of the only bands not to rip At The Gates off.

Just kidding, they kind of do. But what’s a few ‘borrowed’ riffs when the bulk of the music kicks ass and the band stand out as masters’ of their craft?

Check out the song ‘Heaven Ablaze’ below, taken from the band’s 2005 debut, From Your Grave, below.

Justice Leauge of Deathgrind

We’ve made fun of supergroups before on Dose of Metal, so I thought hard about milking that cow once again. Well, I’m lying. I barely though at all, and was just looking for an excuse to write something for the site.

This time around, we really do have a gem. Justice Leauge of Deathgrind, otherwise known as Lock Up, have had their founding member, Shane Embury (the dude from Napalm Death) interviewed by some guys, and he talks about the band and what not. Apparently, they’ve had a new album come out last month, it’s called “Necropolis Transparent,” and he also discusses the band’s somewhat rotating lineup which includes people who put together will maybe some day be as famous as that clip of my cute cat that went viral at one point.

I am messing witchallz of course, the band has been around for quite a while, and Shane is an awesome guy, so I honestly recommend you make the jump, find out about the current and past members, and hear the album preview. It sounds pretty much like the perfect grind — the one you can actually listen to. Oooooh snap.

Sepultura’s Wacken proshot footage posted online

… and it’s proper whack! Lame pun attempts aside, the band’s full one hour set at this year’s Wacken Open Air Fest has been posted online. I’d usually just skip to the two best songs Sepultura ever made, Roots Bloody Roots and Bullet the Blue Sky, but someone though that it would be a good idea to post the full show as one huge video, plus, they didn’t even play the better song of the two. Plus the crazy people are jumping to apparently new songs like Kairos. What the hell? Proper whack!

You can check the playlist after the jump.

Review: Trivium – In Waves (Special Edition)

Released yesterday in the US (and on a different date in 4 of the other countries in the world), Trivium have returned to the scene after almost 7 years of bursting into the forefront of mainstream Metal, and having lost some of their momentum in recent years.

Regular readers of Dose of Metal will know that I haven’t always been that kind to the band, but being honest, I actually consider Ascendency a damn good album. Overrated? Maybe, but a bad album it is far from being. As the band grew in popularity, however, that is when the band began to lose themselves. The Crusade was nothing but a straight ‘Tallica and Megadeth rip off, being nothing but a wank stain of a record. Then came Shogun, a massive improvement with some claiming it to be a return to form.

So, it’s 2011, Trivium are back with another album. Despite my rantings, I actually gave lead single ‘In Waves’ a positive review last week. Now it’s time to find out the verdict on the album, so make the jump.

Today’s Dose of Metal: Metallica with Dave

Since Dave wants a band with James and Lars so badly, thought I’d show you guys this clip from 1983.

Yes, that is Metallica with Mr. Mustaine performing ‘The Mechanix,’ the original version of ‘The Four Horsemen’ before Dave was kicked out. He would, of course, eventually release it as Megadeth with the original title.

By the way, make sure you watch it in full HD. <insert sarcastic emoticon here>